Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-10-21
SUMMER MATERIALS.
Moderately Expensive Dress q Gods In
Wool and ALI Wool Canvas.

Moderately Expensive Dress q Gods In Silk,
Wool and ALI Wool Canvas.
There are many new and pretty ma.
terials in wool and silk or all silk and
all wool; but they possess one uniform
characteristic, they are soft. pliable.
gentle in tone and texture, light in
weight and fall in easy folds. 1t seems
quite impossible to revive the stiff and
wiry alpacas, the more stately poplin
or even the useful 'de beige" We
hear occasionally of these materials
being employed fashionably, but they
are not seen either in the shops or on
the street. The materials in demand
are the fine cloths, the camel's hairs,
the thin woods. the cambrics, the
gingham's, the soft silks and the love.
ly new mixtures of silk and wool
known as benzaline, pean de sole and
the like.
In some of these colors are united 50
as to produce the most artistic effects
as the 'Gobelins," for example
which blend gray, green and gold; OF
gray, blue and gold exquisitely. The
new designs and combinations show
fantastic differences only to be recog.
nized by experienced eyes. When
plaids are used, for instance, they are
employed for the skirt, and smaller
plaid or plain material for the bodice
and drapery. When a stripe is used,
however, this is generally reversed. A
solid material is reserved for the skirt,
which may have stripe let in as
panel if the design admits of it; but the
upper part of the dress, basque or pol.
onaise is of the striped fabric, with
vest or revers of the plain, or what
ever mounting the design calls for.
The newest Scotch ginghams show
large plaided patterns for the skirt,
and smaller plaids, checks or solid
colors for the bodice and drapery.
Some of the new foulards ire cl arm
ing. The ground is covered with
small, all-over, irregular, puzzle pat.
tern in olive or green, with minute
dots in old gold or blue or white, set
like little points or nails in the pat
tern. This design conceals the light
ground and imparts general tone OF
color and character which foulards
often lack and renders them more
available than when printed in small,
detached figures upon light grounds.
Light grounds are not now tolerated
in materials that are used for any out
door purpose.
In the windows of many of the dry
goods shops upon Broadway and else
where are mountains of all-wool can
vas cloth in lovely light shades of yel-
low, stone or gray. They are marked
down to twenty-five cents per yard
yet when made by a fashionable dress.
maker the cost of canvas dress will
come up to seventy-five dollars at the
very least. The reason is, that a com.
plete dress is made of silk underneath
this one of canvas wool and that it is
finished-so far as the bodice is con.
cerned-with even more care than an
ordinary silk bodice. All the fitting is
done in the silk lining, all the seams
are taken in this and not in the out. |
side, which is simply gathered in tc
the form and tackled to the sides of the
silk front, which is finished as a vest;
plain, plated or with piece of orient.
al embroidery, if the dress is trimmed
in this way.
These canvas materials are hand, |
some and durable; but of themselves,
they lack character. They can be
made over fine cotton Saline of the
shade and trimmed with contrast color
in velvet, effectively and much less OK.
pensively. - Jenny June, IN Chicago